Email on Strategy disable ?

[nextjob]

Hi all,
I understood how to send emails inside a strategy but is it possible to send an email when a strategy is disabled (on error for example) ?
Same question on a log event ?
Thanks for your help,
Nextjob

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

nextjob, you could work with RealtimeErrorHandling set to TakeNoAction and then send yourself an email should run for example into rejected orders which would cause normally a strategy termination. Of course you need to manage the running strategy then still (either reissue rejected orders, or return getting flat and returning out of new ones as an example) -

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/RealtimeErrorHandling.html

[nextjob]

Hi Bertrand,
This is a solution for OrderState.Rejected, but when the strategy stops with OnBarUpdate issue (because I made a mistake in the code for example), the RealtimeErrorHandling set to TakeNoAction will not be efficient and I will not be aware quickly of this...
Do you have another idea ?

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Correct, this would address rejected orders where the default handling would normally take over to ensure issues are not getting worse - for your case I think you can 'try catch' the code issue and SendMail then on such a condition triggered - http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...ead.php?t=9825

[nextjob]

Great ! I will test this.
Many thanks...

[nextjob]

Bertrand,
This code is very interesting but unfortunately, it does not allow a global monitoring of the strategies but of piece of code.

It is possible to build a strategy independent routine which globally reads logs and detects a string like "Disabled strategy= *" and then send a warning mail ?

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

nextjob, strategies would unfortunately not cross communciate - you could try logging the info of the individual strategies to text files and then reading this textfile for raising email alerts from an indicator / strategy.

[nextjob]

yes I did this with "File.AppendAllText" command but it is always the same problem, when the strategy exits, the information is in the general logs...

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Unfortunately you can't access the log directly - however one might work out to read the log txt file generated by NT with StreamReader -

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=3476

[nextjob]

Thanks for this idea but is it possible to export logs in a file automatic from a NinjaScript ?

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Unfortunately not, as you can't access the log info programmatically.

[nextjob]

Ok.
Is it something planned in version 7 to enable email notification from logs ?

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Yes, you could setup to get email alert type entries (default green ones) - but unfortunately not every log event generated.

[nextjob]

Is it currently available ?

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

nextjob,

If you want an email to be sent, in your code just add SendMail().